slides: Side of the Rhode: Who’s Hot & Who’s Not? - Jan. 20, 2017
Friday, January 20, 2017
Russ Moore, GoLocalProv MINDSETTER™
Every Friday, GoLocalProv's Russ Moore breaks down who is rising and who is falling in RI politics, business, and sports. Moore has worked on both sides of the desk in Rhode Island media, both for newspapers and on political campaigns.
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Donald Trump
Love him or hate him, Trump has accomplished a feat most “experts”, including supposed statistics and polling genius Nate Silver (who gave Trump a 2 percent chance of even winning the Republican nomination) deemed impossible. Now it’s up to Trump to fulfill his campaign promises of improving the economy and destroying ISIS. Let’s all hope he’s successful.
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Restaurant Week
One of the best things about our little state is the diverse cuisine offered at so many excellent and diverse restaurants. We’re in the midst of the state’s winter restaurant week period, so do yourself and the economy a favor by going out and having yourself a great dinner at one of our awesome establishments. (I highly recommend Massimo, located on historic Federal Hill.)
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Patricia Raskin
For the past 25 years, Raskin has been providing small business owners and entrepreneurs valuable advice on how to solve problems creatively and in a way that helps them and their customers at the same time. Raskin’s show, heard on 630 WPRO on Saturdays from 3-5 continues to be a great resource for small business owners and all businessmen and women.
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New England Patriots
When a football team can easily win a game even when they’re not playing anything near their best--that’s impressive. That’s exactly what New England did last weekend, easily besting the Houston Texans. Now the Pittsburgh Steelers team that boasts impressive superstars, but top to bottom, isn’t as talented as the Patriots, stands in the way. The Patriots are the favorites to return to yet another Super Bowl under the leadership of Bill Belichick and superstar quarterback Tom Brady.
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Christopher Maher
The school superintendent looks weak by completely capitulating to the disruptive and irresponsible actions of the students who planned today’s scheduled walkout to protest Donald Trump’s inauguration today. Maher, and the rest of school leadership, should be teaching the students that political activism should take place on the student's own time, not during school hours and that actions, even ones we might consider just, have consequences.
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Pawtucket Red Sox Owners
The push to build a new stadium is back in the news, but this time in Pawtucket, at the site of where the old Apex Building in Pawtucket is located on the city’s riverfront. The team will reportedly ask for subsidies, and tax abatements totaling more than $50 million from Rhode Island taxpayers. That’s much less than the $120 million they asked for two years ago, but it’s still a massive amount of taxpayer dollars to seek from a financially struggling state considering that the team’s ownership group is comprised almost exclusively of out-of-state millionaires like former CVS CEO Tom Ryan.
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Ringling Brothers
The circus has a long, disgraceful history that at its origin featured “freak” shows which basically mocked people with disabilities and deformities. The show eventually evolved into an exploitation of animals for profit--another disgusting practice. Last week, Ringling brothers announced that it was going to end its production. Good riddance.
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